Work in progress + plein air can be hazardous to your health

...if you are a bee. More on that at the end of the post.
Today was finally a beautiful sunny day (after SNOW on Friday) with minimal wind. So out I went to continue work on the tree painting I began a couple of weeks ago. I still have more to do but here it is so far. What a great day to be outside!

 A bee - attracted to the bright colours of paint I assume - landed on my palette, smack in the middle of a wet blob of paint. Paint got on its wings and legs. It looked pretty weighed down and was having trouble flying off the palette. So I held a twig to it's legs which it crawled up on and transported it to a forsythia bush.

Here's a picture of said bee decked out with some cad red and titanium white. Good luck little bee!